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Wilde Ballad Reading Goal Poem Oscar Hanging Murderer

Front The Ballad of Reading Goal
Back poem
Oscar Wilde
1898
the hanging of a murderer while Wilde himself a convict
harsh eloquence
concludes with a plea for Christ's forgiveness and a complaint against prison conditions.

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